There are WAP devices offering 802.11n wireless with 10/100 ethernet port for adding wireless to an ethernet LAN.

As an alternative, would I get better performance if I use an 802.11n wireless gigabit router to connect to my ethernet Router (instead of the WAP) - thereby adding wireless to the network.

I plan to install the wireless router and connect only one of the router's 10/100/1000 ports either to my ethernet LAN's Linksys RSV4000 gigabit router or to a Netgear Prosafe GS108 gigabit switch. The wireless router will be about 100 feet from the hardwired router (for best wireless reception/coverage of 3000 sq ft office)

The LAN is using a single IP addressing scheme throughout. DHCP services come from the hardwired router. Total of 13 users, mixed environment of desktops and laptops, smartphones.

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If I were doing it, I would use a gigabit router with wireless. We are actually doing that ourselves.
You need to configure it correctly BEFORE hooking it up to your existing network or interesting things might happen 😉

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Gryphon3rd, thanks for replying.
I configured a Linksys E4300 bu using the router's WAN link to connect to the office LAN. When a Wireless device connects to the Linksys, it provides a DHCP ip address different from the LAN ip address scheme. Since the router is being used (at this point) as simply a WAP, do you see any advantage to configuring the E4300 DHCP to provide the same addressing scheme as the office LAN or "it doesn't matter?" Thanks.

I would use WPA _2 AES
check all your devices have N compatibility drivers / NIC cards
any desktop computers or hard wired systems, statically assign the IP addresses from a given pool range
the rest can get their IP from DHCP
you could create a VLAN for the office to separate the taffic!

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